Article
Slow Down!
- Swati Mehta, MD, FACP, CPXP, SFHM
April 18, 2023
Slow down dear doc, rest your tired feet, Your Fitbit reads 20k steps, it’s 2 p.m. & you are beat! Multiple rounds of ER-Med Tele & OBS floor, This hamster wheel is spinning out of...
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Thank You, My Fellow Hospitalists
April 18, 2023
Thank you, my fellow hospitalists, For being compassionate, and brave, and bold, For being an advocate for the young and the old, For every transfer accepted, from near or far, For every page...
Article
Through the Lingering Smoke
- Elizabeth Herrle, MD, FACP, FHM
April 18, 2023
No one told you How the smoke would linger On your clothes and in your hair Lining your nostrils You swear it lives inside your skin Somehow At times you forget Then catch the scent again You...
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The Future of Hospital Medicine…Is Connected
April 18, 2023
Recently someone on Twitter, supposedly a physician, replied to one of my tweets calling out misinformation and tried to catch me in some trap about vaccine-induced cardiac events. She went on to...
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Turn Back the Clocks
April 18, 2023
Turn Back the Clocks Dr. Beddow is a hospitalist and hospitalist quality/safety medical director for Allina Health system in Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Turn Back the Clocks is...
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Passing the Baton
April 13, 2023
Passing the Baton Ms. Shahrrava Ms. Shahrrava is a 4th-year medical student at St. George’s University School of Medicine 2023 National Hospitalist Day HM Voices Contest Winner
Opinion
Females and the Future of Hospital Medicine
April 13, 2023
I was unknowingly the future of hospital medicine, but it was a future that almost didn’t come true. The first time I stepped onto the hospital wards was with a physician who called himself a...
Opinion
The Future of Hospital Medicine
April 13, 2023
In the future, the hospital's heart will beat With a rhythm that is new and sweet. Technology, including AI's might, Will aid patient care innovation, day and night. The hospitalist will...
Article
2023 Masters in Hospital Medicine
April 12, 2023
SHM outgoing president Rachel Thompson, MD, MPH, SFHM, kicked off SHM Converge 2023 in Austin, Texas in March by honoring SHM's 2023 class of Masters in Hospital Medicine—Alpesh N. Amin, MD, MBA,...
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The Unsung Health Care Hero: When the Physician Advisor Saved a Life
- Deepa Velayadikot, MD, CHCQM-PHYADV;
- Samer Badr, MD
April 11, 2023
Leaving against medical advice is not uncommon in hospitals, but when Ms. Lydia asked to sign out, the nurse and hospitalist were shocked. Ms. Lydia, a sweet, 72-year-old patient with sepsis from...